sending packets

Anyone know how to purely send packets to a specific port at an IP address, and then how to monitor a port for recieved packets? Essentially I wanna write something that is like telnet or a irc client... When I use the winsock ocx, I can connect to a server, but when i send anything, i never recieve a responce... anyone have an idea?

It's possible with the winsock control for telnet and irc.
You have to read the RFC's. And usually make sure you send a carriage return after all outgoing text to the server.

Yeah, probably didn't help but it is possible.